Before Supreme Court relief for Sadhguru’s Isha Foundation, a Tamil Nadu police report chronicled range of findings

The tribunal had ordered the enquiry successful the aforesaid habeas corpus petition, filed by Dr S Kamaraj, a retired professor. He had alleged that his 2 daughters, Geetha Kamaraj (42) and Latha Kamaraj (39), were being held captive astatine the foundation. The women had appeared successful tribunal and said they were determination of their ain escaped will.

The Foundation had past approached the Supreme Court.

In its study to the apical court, the Tamil Nadu constabulary said they did not find grounds supporting allegations of amerciable confinement astatine the Foundation. The study said individuals residing astatine the Foundation, including brahmacharis and others, expressed they were determination voluntarily and could permission astatine immoderate time.

However, the constabulary study stated that respective interior mechanisms, including grievance redressal systems, were not functioning arsenic they should. The Foundation has not responded to queries astir the constabulary study truthful far.

The study listed the disappearance of individuals who had travel to the instauration for assorted courses. As per the report, the constabulary recorded six missing persons cases astatine the Alandurai constabulary presumption implicit the past 15 years. While 5 of these cases were closed, 1 lawsuit remains unresolved arsenic the missing idiosyncratic is yet to beryllium traced. The study did not elaborate connected the cases.

In addition, the constabulary documented 7 cases nether Section 174 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which deals with investigations into suicides and unnatural deaths. Two of these cases are inactive nether investigation, awaiting forensic laboratory reports, the study states. However, it does not gully a nonstop transportation betwixt these suicides and the Foundation’s activities.

The study besides details a lawsuit registered nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. It states that a schoolhouse main had lodged a ailment against a doc employed by Isha Outreach. The doc was aboriginal arrested and denied bail, and the probe remains active.

In a abstracted incident, a pistillate attending a yoga people astatine the Isha Yoga Centre successful 2021 reported being sexually assaulted by different participant, the study states. The ailment was initially filed successful Delhi, and a zero FIR was transferred to Coimbatore police. Though the pistillate aboriginal withdrew her complaint, the constabulary person indicated they mean to question support to proceed the investigation, arsenic her connection was not officially recorded, and the accused was neither arrested nor questioned, it states.

The study besides highlights an ongoing probe into allegations that the Isha Yoga Centre encroached connected onshore designated for tribal communities. The constabulary person registered an FIR, and the lawsuit is presently nether investigation, it states.

As of October 2024, the study says, the Isha Yoga Centre was location to 217 brahmacharis, 2,455 volunteers, 891 paid staff, 1,475 paid workers, and hundreds of students and guests.

As per the report, the Internal Complaints Committee, required nether the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) Act, was recovered to beryllium non-functional.

It besides states that the Joint Director of Health Services successful Coimbatore conducted a thorough inspection of the Isha Clinic. The clinic, portion possessing a valid licence until 2027, was recovered to beryllium utilizing expired aesculapian equipment, and an unqualified idiosyncratic was reportedly operating X-ray machinery, it states.

Child payment experts progressive successful the probe raised concerns astir the deficiency of consciousness among children residing astatine the Foundation astir their rights and protections disposable nether the POCSO Act. The study besides noted that immoderate individuals exhibited temper swings, with psychiatrists advising longer-term reflection to measure immoderate imaginable issues.